The DISGUSTING Crimes Of Rudolf Höss - The Commandant Of Auschwitz

At the Nuremberg Trials following the end of the Second World War, the true crimes of the Nazis and the Third Reich were uncovered. Rudolf Höss the Commandant of Auschwitz, who had overseen the mass murder of over 1 million people was brought to trial shockingly as a defence witness. He admitted the true murderous intent of the Holocaust, and he eventually was sentenced to death and was executed on a specially made gallows inside his former concentration camp. Rudolf Höss’ crimes were endless. He had a long career within the SS and worked in many different concentration camps before he became the Commandant of Auschwitz. Höss worked at Sachsenhausen where he became the second in command, and was in charge of a firing squad that executed hundreds of people and he too shot many with his own pistol. But he was then asked to research the creation of a huge concentration camp in Poland, and following this was appointed as the Commandant of Auschwitz. The camp he oversaw became truly colo